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<h1>Answering a prompt by typing a specific value</h1>
<p>Some prompted reports require you to type in a specific value such as 
 a date or number to define the data that is displayed on the report. These 
 prompts include date prompts, numeric prompts, text prompts, long prompts, 
 and Big Decimal prompts.</p>
<p>If you attempt to run a report that contains a required prompt without 
 answering the required prompt, the report will not run, and a message 
 stating this requirement is displayed.</p>
<h2>Prerequisites</h2>
<p>This procedure assumes you have executed a report that has prompts and 
 are therefore presented with a prompt.</p>
<h2>To answer a prompt by typing a specific value</h2>
<ol type="1" class="whs1">
	
<li class=p><p>Click the name of a prompted report to run it. A prompted 
 report will present a prompt question to be answered before the report 
 data is displayed.</p></li>
	
<li class=p><p>Type an answer in the field provided. You must type 
 the form of answer the prompt is expecting, as follows:</p></li>
	<ul>
<li style="list-style: disc;" type=disc class=p><p>Date prompt: 
 Enter a date value, such as 8/14/2008.</p></li>
	</ul>
</ol>
<p class="whs2"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Note</B></span>: 
 The date prompt also contains the &quot;Show time&quot; feature allowing 
 you to enter a timestamp along with the date. Check the &quot;Display 
 time picker&quot; box to activate the timestamp feature. The Display time 
 picker box defaults to &quot;unchecked&quot; in all existing value prompts. 
 </p>
<p class="whs2"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Note</B></span>: 
 You can change the time format by navigating to the Time tab through one 
 of the following file paths. In pre-Microsoft Windows 2007: Start &gt; 
 Settings &gt; Control Panel &gt; Regional Options &gt; Time. In Microsoft 
 Windows 2007or higher: Start &gt; Control Panel &gt; Regional Options 
 &gt; Time. Your user privileges may need to be modified if you are unable 
 to access the Time tab. </p>
<ul type="1" class="whs3">
	<ul>
<li style="list-style: disc;" type=disc class=p><p>Numeric prompt: 
 Enter integers or decimals up to 15 digits.</p></li>
		
<li style="list-style: disc;" type=disc class=p><p>Text prompt: 
 Enter alphabetic characters that form any type of text string, such as 
 a word or phrase.</p></li>
		
<li style="list-style: disc;" type=disc class=p><p>Big Decimal 
 prompt: Enter integers and decimals up to 38 digits.</p></li>
		
<li style="list-style: disc;" type=disc class=p><p>Long prompt: 
 Enter integer numbers up to 10 digits.</p></li>
	</ul>
</ul>
<ol start="3" type="1" class="whs1">
	
<li class=p><p>Scroll down or click <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Next</B></span><span> 
 to get to the next prompt, if there is one.</span></p></li>
	
<li class=p><p>If there are additional prompts on the report, use the 
 appropriate steps to answer them. (All prompts on the report are listed 
 in the far left pane.) Otherwise, review the summary of your answers and 
 click <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Run Report</B></span> or <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Run 
 Document</B></span>. The report or document is executed and your results are 
 displayed.</p></li>
	
<li class=p><p>If you want to see how your prompt answers were used 
 to create the report’s filter, from the <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>File 
 </B></span>menu, select <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Report Details </B></span>or 
 <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Document Details</B></span>. Your prompt 
 answers appear in the form of report filtering conditions. You can also 
 see whether a cache was used to supply the results. If a cache was not 
 used, the results were taken from the latest data in your data source.</p></li>
</ol>
<p class="whs4">To see data filtered in a different way, click 
 the <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Reprompt</B></span> icon <img src="images/reprompt.gif" x-maintain-ratio="TRUE" width="13px" height="16px" border="0" class="img_whs5"> 
 on the Standard toolbar and answer the prompt again to create a different 
 filter for the report results.</p>
<h2>Renaming a prompted report</h2>
<p>When you run a prompted report or document, you are presented with a 
 prompt before you see any report results. At the bottom of the prompt 
 selection page, you can rename the prompted report. This allows you to 
 choose a meaningful name that makes it easier to later find the report 
 or document in your History List or your My Reports folder.</p>
<p>For example, for a prompted sales report, if you answer a prompt question 
 by specifying the month of October, you can rename the report &quot;October 
 Sales&quot;. Note that this name change is reflected only in your personal 
 version of the report (in your History List). It does not change the actual 
 name of the report object in MicroStrategy.</p>
<h3>Related topics</h3>
<ul type="disc" class="whs6">
	
<li class=p><p>
<a HREF="Answer_prompt_using_list.htm">Answering a prompt 
 by selecting answers from a list</a></p></li>
	
<li class=p><p>
<a href="Answer_prompt_filter_on_attribute.htm">Answering 
 a prompt by defining a filter based on an attribute</a></p></li>
	
<li class=p><p>
<a href="Answer_prompt_filter_on_metric.htm">Answering 
 a prompt by defining a filter based on a metric calculation</a></p></li>
</ul>
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